It turns out I spoke too soon.
Mock outrage at Prince's halftime show appeared online today, in the form of an AP story titled Prince's Halftime Imagery Questioned.
"A number of bloggers have decried "Malfunction!" — including Sam Anderson at New York magazine's Daily Intelligencer. Daily News television critic David Bianculli called it "a rude-looking shadow show" that "looked embarrassingly rude, crude and unfortunately placed."
CBS spokesman Dana McClintock said Tuesday that the network has received "very few" complaints on Prince's performance."
A number of bloggers? A number? The story cites a one blogger. One is, in fact, a number, but still.
I question that Prince's halftime imagery has been questioned. Since I'm "a number" of blogger(s), I believe I've just earned myself an AP story. I'm waiting.
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Mock outrage, despite how it may appear, primarily designed to increase political capital, not to amuse and/or infuriate progressives. (Although I'm sure the latter is a bonus.) I think most right wingers knew what Prince was going for, but realized how foolish they would look describing the object of their outrage.
The press on the other hand, is actively seeking out such controversy. You can tell when they're really digging, when they start quoting random bloggers.
Are you trying to tell us, Jim, that Andy here is a muckraker? I'm shocked. Just shocked.
I don't think I'm raking muck. I was just surprised that there was no mock outrage.
I'm trying to draw attention to the phenomemon of media-manufactured controversy. I've heard more complaints about a particular pothole on Dekalb Ave than I've read about Prince, yet the AP took that one complaint and made a "controversy" about it.
Here's a simple way to figure out if something is truly controversial: take the number of complaints and divide it by the total number of viewers. If the quotient is way higher than usual, it's controversial. If it's not, well, then it's not.
I suspect that Prince's pee-pee shadow show didn't get any more complaints than the average episode of CSI or Survivor.
True story: A friend I was watching the game with bet me $5 that Prince would pull out his cock during the halftime show.
Now I'm not sure who won the bet. =/
It was the second time in the same weekend that I took advantage of a drunk person making an absurd bet. I won $20 at a party the night before off some guy who swore he could eat 5 sandwiches in a minute and a half.
How many sandwiches did he eat?
Sorry, Possum. Just seeing your question now.
It can't really be quantified. He just started smashing the sandwiches into his face with both hands, grabbing two or three sandwiches at a time. During the frenzy, he fell backwards, landing directly on the back of his head, but immediately jumped back up and started attacking the sandwiches again. I don't think he really ate a whole sandwich's worth of food, much less five. I admired his vigor, and gave him a 50% discount.
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